Subj : Re: string comparison
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket>
Date : Tue Nov 25 2003 12:25 pm

I used to do that also.  However the new C++ Language spec from 1998 doesn't
provide for that to work.  If using a newer compiler (newer than Borland C++
5.02 or Turbo C++) be prepared to handle an exception if the allocation
fails.

..  Ed

> Sebastian Ledesma wrote in message
> news:3fc36d30@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> I will prefer:
> newstring = new char[strlen(passed)+1];
>
> Also, sometimes i prefer to use:
>   set_new_handler(0);
> this ensures that a fail in the allocation didnt throw a
> exception, instead it returns NULL (as lot of code expect).

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